MELBOURNE festival program 16 - 19 July 2008

Thursday 17 July OPENING NIGHT LAUNCH 7:30pm Marcus Schmickler (Germany), Alex White (Sydney),
Hi God People, Nat / VENUE Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Friday 18 July 7:30pm toy.bizarre (France), Andrew Pekler (Germany), Lawrence English (Brisbane), Metalog
(Sydney/Melbourne) / VENUE Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne

Saturday 19 July 3:00pm Sound Walk with Anthony Magen starting at Arts House, ending at Melbourne
Planetarium (free event)

Saturday 19 July 5:00pm Immersion surround sound listening event curated by Philip Samartzis with work by Yannick Dauby (France), Reinhold Friedl (Germany), Jean-Luc Guionnet (France), Cornel Wilczek, Thembi
Soddell, Anthea Caddy / VENUE Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks, 2 Booker Street, Spotswood

Saturday 19 July 9:00pm Robert Normandeau (Canada), Jacques Soddell (Bendigo), Rod Price (Melbourne) /
VENUE Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Wednesday 16 - Friday 18 July 12:00pm - 7:00pm and Saturday 19 July 11:00am - 4:00pm vacuum#1 evolving performance installation with Cedric Peyronnet (France), Camilla Hannan, Eamon Sprod, Ryan Cockburn, Thembi Soddell, Carl Priestly, Matt Davis, Anthea Caddy / Westspace, Lvl 1, 15 - 19 Anthony Street, Melbourne (free event)

TICKETS www.greentix.com.au
www.liquidarchitecture.org.au

SYDNEY The Factory
105 Victoria Rd, Marrickville, NSW
Friday July 11 ? Saturday July 12
TICKETS :: The Factory Theatre

Friday July 11 7.30pm
$12
TOY.BIZARRE (Bellac) supported by Alliance Francaise / French Embassy Australia
ROBERT NORMANDEAU (Montreal) supported by ACMA
LAWRENCE ENGLISH (Brisbane) supported by Sound Travellers
NAT (Melbourne) supported by Sound Travellers
JACQUES SODDELL (Bendigo) supported by Sound Travellers
KUSUM NORMOYLE

Saturday July 12 7.30pm
$12
ANDREW PEKLER (Berlin) supported by Goethe Institut Australia
MARCUS SCHMICKLER (Köln) supported by Goethe Institut Australia
METALOG (Sydney/Melbourne) supported by Sound Travellers
KAZUMICHI GRIME
NICK WISHART + HIROFUMI UCHINO
HEIL SPIRITS
IVAN LISYAK
TOECUTTER

Installation Program
equipment provided by SoundHouse VectorLab

CÉDRIC PEYRONNET (Bellac) supported by Alliance Francaise / French Embassy Australia
JODI ROSE
RENE CHRISTEN
MELISSA HUNT
MARK BROWN
JASON SWEENEY
JESSICA TYRRELL

+ International Screening Program of new A/V works

From Goethe-Institut Australia:

Robert Henke tours Australia
Electronic Music
January / February 2008
Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney
Entry: various (see diverse events)

Robert Henke is an electronic music composer and performer, instrument builder, audio software designer and installation artist from Berlin, Germany. He is most well known for his dance music composed and performed as Monolake.

As Monolake he has performed in Australia and New Zealand in 2003 and 2006 and will visit again in January and February 2008. In 2008 Robert will perform in dance clubs and outdoor festivals as Monolake and will perform his most recent work Layering Buddha in a series of multi channel concerts in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

Robert has produced a wide range of audio work for both listening and club environments. He has performed or created installation work of his sound art at the Tate Modern in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM) Luxembourg as well as at Transmediale and many smaller festivals and galleries in Europe and the United States. He is a regular performer at the MUTEK Festival in Montreal. Robert’s work Layering Buddha was awarded an Honorary Mention in the Digital Musics category at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica competition.

Dates and locations can be found at Goethe-Institut Australia and also Robert Henke’s website.